cbs bay area . >> we captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight, the new intelligence from the f.b.i. that warns of a domestic terror attack in the nation's capital tomorrow, including plans to take control of the u.s. capitol and remove democratic lawmakers. the u.s. capitol under heightened security with new threats tonight from domestic violent extremists, as the head of the capitol police reveals there's been a 93% increase in threats to members of congress. neanderthal thinking: the president blasts states like texas for lifting covid restrictions and ending mask mandates. what business owners are sayingy tonight. cuomo refuses to resign. the new york governor breaks his silence after accusations of sexual harassment. >> and i truly and deeply apologize for it.

i feel awful about it. >> o'donnell: tonight, the reaction from his accusers. american killed in iraq: aed defense contractor dies as 10 rockets strike a u.s. air base, the very same base that almost brought the u.s. and iran to war last year. fewer stimulus checks: president biden agrees to limit who gets direct payments. what you and your family need to know. women and the pandemic: tonight as women shoulder much of the covid burden, we focus on latinas and their families who have been especially hard hit. battle royale: buckingham palace announces an investigation into meghan markle. tonight the duchess of sussex tonightduesf responds and bridgitadivide: a mom's crusade to get every student a laptop. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital.

>> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin with news on a chilling and dangerous new domestic terror threat against the u.s. capitol. tonight, cbs news has obtained an f.b.i. intelligence bulletin warning that groups have discussed plans to take control of the capitol as soon as tomorrow, and that they are targeting democratic lawmakers. u.s. capitol police say they also have evidence of a possible plot by a militia group to launch an attack in the next 24 hours. now, sources tell cbs news that intelligence officials are focusing on groups that stormed the capitol on january 6, saying some are fixated on this qanon conspiracy theory that donald trump will take over again as president tomorrow, march 4. that's the date that presidential inaugurations were held until 1937. well, tonight, police and lawmakers are taking these new

warnings of violence seriously, and they aren't taking any chances. house votes that were scheduled for tomorrow have now been canceled or moved up to this evening, and security is being stepped up, including for impeachment managers. now all of this as we're hearing for the first time tonight from the head of washington's national guard about restrictions that he says kept him from deploying troops to fight back as the capitol was under siege back in january. so a lot of new questions we've got a lot of new reporting for you and your family and our teams standing by. cbs' jeff pegues is going to lead off our coverage from capitol hill. good evening, jeff. >> reporter: and, norah, with the house canceling some business tomorrow, there are a lot of staff members here who decided they're just going to stay home, this as capitol police call for reinforcements as the d.h.s. and f.b.i. warn of the possibility of more attacks. tonight, the capitol locking down again ahead of more threats from domestic extremists, including many who attacked the building on january 6. this new bulletin, obtained by cbs news, warns of more violence with little or no warning.

the threat is driven by a qanon conspiracy theory that former president trump will be inaugurated tomorrow, march 4. the acting chief of the u.s. capitol police said threats against lawmakers have almost doubled in the last year. >> we know that the threats are through the roof. >> reporter: the bulletin also mentioned militia plans to take control of the u.s. capitol andd remove democratic one group the f.b.i. is warning about is the three percenters, an antigovernment group, some of whom were arrested after the capitol assault and seen here in this training video. security around the capitol is being fortified because of the threats with more police on duty, and the national guard will maintain its presence. >> we have enhanced our securitt posture. >> you better run, cops! >> reporter: meanwhile, law enforcement continues to face tough questions about failures in the response to the insurrection, including why it took so long for the national guard to respond.

the guard's d.c. commander blamed inaction by the pentagon. >> the army senior leaders did not think that it looked good, it would be a good optic. they further stated that it could-- it could incite theit cl crowd. >> reporter: extremists have called tomorrow the true inauguration day. it will be another real test for law enforcement that is still trying to learn how to confront this evolving threat. norah. >> o'donnell: jeff pegues, thank you. and tonight, there is intense push-back against orders in texas and other states to lift mask mandates and reopen businesses 100%. president biden and public health officials say the timing of the loosened covid restrictions couldn't be worse. we get more now from cbs' janet shamlian. >> reporter: blow-back from the texas governor reopening the state was fast and furious. from the president... >> the last thing we need is neanderthal thinking. >> reporter: ...to the c.d.c. director. >> and the exact measures we have taken to stop the pandemic are now too often being

flagrantly ignored. >> reporter: and on the ground in houston, harris county judge lina hidalgo: >> i can't sit by quietly while somebody tells my constituents that everything's okay, that life can go back to normal, when i know those words will lead to death. >> reporter: you believe the governor's loosening of restrictions will lead to more deaths? >> oh, i am certain of it. >> reporter: texas will be one of 16 states without a mask mandate. mississippi dropped its requirement today. but businesses like houston's saint arnold brewing company won't be following the governor's guidance. >> we are going to follow the c.d.c. guidelines. we disagree with that ruling. >> reporter: how do you think your clients will react to your keeping your masn place? >> so far the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. it's really adapting on the fly. and i think bars and restaurants and businesses have been doing that for almost a year now. >> reporter: target, kroger, and macy's, among retailers saying

they, too, will still enforce masks in stores. cbs news has learned the c.d.c. will release guidance tomorrow on what fully vaccinated americans can do, including small gatherings without masks. governor abbott pointed to increased vaccinations, a one- day record this week. but with a population of 29 million, the state ranks among the last in doses administered per person. texas now reporting about 7,000 new cases each day. that number was 5,000 a day when the governor reordered a lockdown last summer. >> 95% of people in this state have not yet received their two vaccines. we've got a long, long way to go. we know that the virus hasn't disappeared. we've got to continue buckling down. >> reporter: even as they will continue to observe social distancing and masks at saint arnold's, it's important to note there are a lot of people in texas very happy with this decision, overjoyed, even. they say they're ready to get back to normal, despite the medical guidance.

norah. >> o'donnell: janet shamlian, thank you. all right, tonight, two former aides to new york governor andrew cuomo are rejecting his apology. they are among the three women who accused the governor of inappropriate conduct. cuomo says he's sorry and embarrassed, but he won't resign from office. cbs' jericka duncan reports tonight from albany, new york. >> i'm not going to resign. >> reporter: pushing back against calls to step aside, new york governor andrew cuomo publicly addressed the sexual harassment firestorm involving three women. >> i now understand that i acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. it was unintentional, and i truly and deeply apologize for it. i never touched anyone inappropriately. >> reporter: one of the women, former staffer charlotte bennett, claims the governor

asked her last summer whether she was monogamous in her relationships and if she had ever had sex with older men. >> what he did with charlotte is classic sexual harassment. >> reporter: debrah katz, bennet's attorney, is speaking publicly about her client for the first time. >> she reported his behavior to his chief of staff, and then spoke to his legal counsel and detailed the harassment. and it is inconceivable that he did not know that this behavior was very harmful to her. >> reporter: the two other accusers claim governor cuomo did touch them inappropriately. former staffer, 36-year-old lindsey boylan, claims cuomo kissed her without her consent, and anna ruch, the most recent accuser, released this photo and claims at a 2019 wedding reception the governor tried to kiss her. >> you can find hundreds of pictures of me making the same

gesture. if they were offended by it, then it was wrong. >> for the governor to say, "i never touched anybody inappropriately," the world saw that picture. if today he took the microphone and said, "i've looked at that picture, and that was inappropriate, and i clearly touched her inappropriately, and i'm sorry," i'd have a lot more respect for his position. >> reporter: cuomo stated that he fully supports a woman's right to come forward and says it should be encouraged. my interview with debrah katz, the attorney, she said that she's confident that there will be more women with more allegations in the coming days. norah. >> o'donnell: wow, jericka duncan, thank you. tonight, urgent discussions are being held at the white house and pentagon about how to respond to a rocket attack on an airbase in iraq that houses u.s. troops. an american contractor died of a heart attack. we get late details tonight from david martin at the pentagon.

>> reporter: you can see the tubes from which the rockets were launched and what the backblast of the engines did to the truck which carried them into firing position. 10 landed inside al asad air base, where u.s. troops are located, 120 miles west of baghdad. the american contractor had taken cover in one of these sandbag bunkers but suffered a heart attack and died shortly afterward. president biden stopped short of blaming the usual suspects: iranian-backed militias. >> we're identifying who is responsible and will make judgments from that point. >> reporter: the rockets were a clear sign last week's u.s. air strike against this outpost, controlled by iranian-backed militias responsible for previous attacks, did not convince them to back off. >> certainly, this is a troubling development, and not what anybody wanted to see. >> holy ( bleep )! >> reporter: 14 months ago, there was a much larger attack by iran on al asad, recorded by an american drone. army major alan johnson described it in this interview with "60 minutes."

>> i remember being in that bunker, locked arms with the soldier next to me, and we were saying the "our father," over and over again. >> reporter: johnson and the rest of the troops at al asad survived that night, but prayers weren't enough in this latest attack. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> o'donnell: and tonight, a former white house physician is at the center of a scathing new pentagon report. the inspector general's report says dr. ronny jackson bullied subordinates, made sexual and denigrating comments, and drank alcohol while on duty. jackson, now a republican congressman from texas, treated presidents obama and trump as white house physician. now, jackson denies the allegations in the report. and tonight, there's a big change in the covid stimulus bill that you need to know about. a compromise in the senate means millions who got checks during the trump administration won't be getting them this time. cbs' weijia jiang joins us now from the white house to explain it all. good evening weijia. >> reporter: norah, that's right, moderate democrats have

long complained the $1,400 checks will go to people who make too much money and president biden has to make them happy because he needs every single democratic senator on board to seal the deal. so under this new agreement, individuals who make $80,000 or less will receive a check. and so will couples as long as they don't make more than $160,000. now, these income caps are down from what house lawmakers approved. moderates also wanted to reduce the amount for emergency unemployment benefits, but the president is standing firm on that figure, $400 a week. norah. >> o'donnell: it's such a big stimulus bill. do we know when it might be passed? >> reporter: so the earliest that senators could vote on this is this weekend before sending it back to the house. and democrats are scrambling to get a final version to the president by march 14 when the current unemployment benefits run out. >> o'donnell: all right, weijia jiang, thank you. and we are learning a lot more

tonight about that horrific crash in southern california that left 13 people dead. border patrol says those people were among more than 40 who drove through a hole cut in a border fence in two s.u.v.s on tuesday. one of those cars caught fire. everyone survived. the other one, crammed with 25 people, collided with the gravel truck. all 13 who were killed are believed to have entered the u.s. illegally. we're going to turn now to the pandemic's disproportionate toll on women. women shoulder the covid burden and latina women are among the hardest hit. unemployment among latinas more than tripled, and new data reveals a third of latinas with families say they are behind on their rent, and one in five didn't have enough to eat. particularly hard hit-- the millions of those women who are undocumented. tonight cbs' lilia luciano continues our series "women and the pandemic." >> reporter: esperanza hernandez and her two daughters are living in this small apartment with a shower curtain to create a

bedroom. you have always felt that you've lived under the shadows, but at least before, you were able to make ends meet. undocumented, esperanza has always worked full time. in november, she became ill with covid and spent three weeks in the i.c.u. her 19-year-old daughter andrea, born in the u.s., now earns the family's only income while also going to college. >> work, take her to the hospital, take care of my sister. i didn't expect to be responsible for every single detail within my household. >> reporter: the pandemic hit the service industry hard, eliminating jobs in restaurants, housekeeping, and child care. for many undonted wen, their only safety net-- their kids. no unemployment, no stimulus, no disability, no rental assistance? disability, no >> nothing. it's not available at all for her. ends meet. okay, hon >> they were not eligible for the stimulus check, even though

they work and have contributed taxes to our economy. >> reporter: neighborhood food donations are a lifeline for maria and her three american children. her husband died in january of a heart attack. she and her son, leo, 21, were laid off from bakery jobs. there is no work? leo's unemployment check is the only income. >> give my mom some money to pay the rent, food. >> reporter: you can't afford to be poor. being poor is the most expensive way of life. daughters survived covid, butr- they're not sure they can survive the fallout. lilia luciano, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: and there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." after a series of botched police raids, chicago makes some sweeping changes. and tonight, why buckingham palace is investigating claims made against the duchess of sussex. f su .

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